| Altera Opens 66th Joint Laboratory and Training Center in China |
August 12, 2009 -- Altera Corp. has announced the opening of the new Peking University and Altera International Limited Joint EDA/SOPC Lab at the Peking University School of Software and Microelectronics (Wuxi), Jiangsu Province, China. T ... read more |
| Ciranova Achieves 1000th User Download of PyCell Studio |
August 12, 2009 -- Ciranova, Inc. announced a significant milestone in the proliferation of PyCells, the company’s next-generation architecture for building blocks used in analog/ mixed-signal IC design. As of June 30, 2009, over 1,000 un ... read more |
| DVCon 2010 Calls for Paper, Panel and Tutorial Proposals Featured |
August 12, 2009 -- The 2010 Design and Verification Conference (DVCon), sponsored by Accellera, is now accepting paper, panel and tutorial submissions. Presentations are highly technical in nature and reflect real life experiences in usin ... read more |
| National Semiconductor Unveils New Nanopower Op Amp |
August 12, 2009 -- A new nanopower operational amplifier (op amp) from National Semiconductor Corp. provides the industry's lowest power consumption at 552nW, with guaranteed operation down to 1.6V. The PowerWise LPV521 extends battery li ... read more |
| ON Semiconductor Introduces Ultra-Low-Power, High-Accuracy Analog Voltage Reference ICs |
August 12, 2009 -- ON Semiconductor has introduced the new CAT8900 family of high-accuracy voltage reference ICs that combine very high initial accuracy, low supply current consumption and a stable temperature coefficient to enable precis ... read more |
| UNH Utilizes Arasan Chip Systems' MIPI SLIMbus Compliance Suite |
August 12, 2009 -- Arasan Chip Systems, Inc. announced that the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) is utilizing its SLIMbus Compliance Suite to enable system designers to thoroughly test the compliance of th ... read more |
| RFaxis Secures Zigbee and WLAN Design Wins |
August 12, 2009 -- RFaxis, Inc. today announced that Taiwan-based CeraMicro Technology Corp. has chosen RFaxis' RF Front-end ICs (RFeICs) for integration into its system-in-package (SiP) solutions for Zigbee and WLAN.
CeraMicro is a ... read more |
| Next-Generation DRAM Developed by Yale University and Semiconductor Research Corp. Featured |
August 11, 2009 -- Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC) and Yale University researchers have developed a new DRAM cell using ferroelectric layers that could significantly increase the technological and market competitiveness for DRAM techno ... read more |
| Amalfi Semiconductor Gets $24 Million in Series C Funding |
August 10, 2009 -- Amalfi Semiconductor, Inc. has received $24 million in Series C funding from four investment firms. Amalfi is anticipating explosive revenue growth in upcoming months for its advanced CMOS power amplifier products, whic ... read more |
| TI's New FlatLink Transmitter Offers Glue-Less Connection to Low-Power Embedded Processors |
August 10, 2009 -- Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) has introduced the first LVDS serializer that connects directly to 1.8-V powered processors. Using TI's FlatLink technology, the SN75LVDS83B eliminates the need for a costly level shifter wh ... read more |
| Micron Validates Denali's NAND Controllers for High-Performance Applications |
August 10, 2009 -- Denali, Inc. today announced that Micron Technology, Inc. has validated Denali's Databahn NAND Flash controller IP and FlashPoint products with its line of ONFI 2-based flash devices. Denali's products provide de ... read more |
| Cypress Expands USB and MCU Portfolio with New Full-Speed USB and Low-Voltage Wireless Controllers |
August 10, 2009 -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced the new enCoRe V Full-Speed USB peripheral microcontrollers (MCUs) and enCoRe V LV (low voltage) wireless MCUs. The new families offer up to 32kBytes of Flash memory, three 16 ... read more |
| Broadcom's Integrated MoCA SOC Reference Design Receives MoCA 1.1 Certification |
August 10, 2009 -- Broadcom Corp. has announced that its home networking reference design platform for set-top box (STB) and broadband access products, featuring integrated Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) connectivity, has received M ... read more |
| Atmel Announces SiliconCity Flexible Architecture for Low-Cost Custom Defined SOC Development |
August 11, 2009 -- Atmel Corp. has announced a new custom architecture for 90-nm SiliconCity ASIC development, providing up to 350K gates/mm2, offering gate densities in the range of a standard cell ASIC. SiliconCity Flexible A ... read more |
| AMD Adds New Levels of Processing Performance to Embedded BGA Client Platform |
August 10, 2009 -- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) has announced immediate availability of two new dual-core, 18W TDP processors for the scalable ASB1 BGA embedded client platform. The AMD Turion Neo X2 processor Model L625 and the AMD ... read more |
| Intel, Micron Achieve Industry's Most Efficient NAND Product Using 3-Bit/Cell Technology |
August 11, 2009 -- Intel Corp. and Micron Technology, Inc. have developed of a new 3-bit/cell (3bpc) multi-level cell (MLC) NAND technology, leveraging their 34-nm NAND process. The chips are typically used in consumer storage devi ... read more |
| Mentor Graphics Library of Questa Multi-view Verification Components Supports HDMI |
August 10, 2009 -- Corp. has announced that the Questa Multi-view Verification Components (MVC) library now supports HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface). The Questa MVC library helps speed up functional verification of chips inco ... read more |
| Evatronix Fastest 8051 Microcontroller Now Fully Supported By ARM Keil µVision4 IDE |
August 10, 2009 -- Evatronix SA, today announced the full support of its R8051XC2 microcontroller IP by the ARM Keil µVision4 Integrated Development Environment. Starting today, users of all Keil µVision tools suites can make use of all t ... read more |
| CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP Core Powers HD Audio in Sunplus' New Blu-ray SOCs |
August 10, 2009 -- CEVA, Inc. today announced that Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd. has licensed the CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP core for its next-generation set-top-boxes, HDTV and Blu-ray disc chipsets. Sunplus is integrating CEVA's high- ... read more |
| Perceptia Confirms Performance of 11-GHz, 0.4-ps, 40-nm DSP-Based PLL Hard IP Core |
August 10, 2009 -- Perceptia Devices has confirmed functionality and ultra-high performance of its DeepSub pPLL01 hard IP core. The pPLL01 has an output frequency ranges from 9 to 11GHz and can be driven from sources down to 20MHz. The de ... read more |
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